FF’s Fairy Tales of Ireland must not be forgotten by electorate

THERE’S a certain perversity in the apologia, and it cannot be described otherwise, issued by Fianna Fáil in relation to their general election manifesto this week, which puts me in mind of a quotation from St Augustine.

It is apposite that the saint from Hippo should come to mind in describing an attempt by one of the most extravagantly hypocritical regimes this country has ever seen to try to tell the electorate that they had not been taken in by a massive three-card-trick.

Having lied through their teeth to get back into power, a fact now acknowledged by the recent Irish Times/TNS survey, Fianna Fáil have now adopted the Augustinian characteristic of hindsight. Like the reformed sinner, they now would like us to belive that “Late have I loved thee,” that the measures taken, post the general election, were for our own good.